If y'all've forgotten your Windows password and y'all don't have an install CD laying around, at that place's no demand to worry. Not only are in that location one-half a dozen complicated means to reset the countersign, you tin do information technology hands with the Offline Windows Countersign editor.

Of class, if you practise accept a Windows CD, you lot tin can reset your password the piece of cake way with a simple trick.

Note:this should work on all versions of Windows, but if you are running Windows 8 or viii.i and too using a Microsoft Business relationship to login to your computer, you'll need to reset your Microsoft Account password using a web browser on their web site.

Create the Kick Disk

You'll need to create a boot disk using another PC. If you lot don't take some other PC, you'll have to bug i of your friends to use theirs. Offset, you'll need to download the boot disk from here:

Download the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

And then download and launch ImgBurn, which is a really simple piece of software that helps y'all fire an ISO image to a deejay. Note: if you have another awarding for burning an ISO epitome, y'all can apply that instead.

Cull the Source, click the burn button, and create the boot disk.

You could too create a bootable USB drive instead if you'd like, the instructions are on the Offline NT download site.

Resetting Your Windows Password

Boot your PC from the kick disk (you might take to suit the BIOS to let booting from the CD). You'll be prompted at a couple of screens, which you tin can more often than not only hit the Enter central at. For example, this screen asks if y'all want to select the get-go partition, and [ane] is already selected, and then just hit Enter.

The same matter happens at the next step, where yous have to choose the path to your registry. The default is fine, so hit Enter.

Next you lot tin can choose whether to use password reset or another matter, so just hitting Enter for password reset.

Next you'll be prompted whether you desire to edit users or the registry. You want to edit user passwords, so striking Enter once more.

And at present, the first screen where you'll need to do something other than hit the Enter key. In this case, yous'll want to type the username that yous desire to reset. In my case, this was "geek", so I just typed that (without the quotes). And then hit Enter.

Now you'll want to probably just bare the password, which is already selected, so hit the Enter primal once more (yous tin always change it one time you're back in Windows).

And now, y'all'll accept to salvage what you just did. So blazon an exclamation point to quit (or the "!" symbol), then type the alphabetic character "y" to relieve.

At this bespeak it should say "EDIT COMPLETE", and y'all can reboot your reckoner. You should be able to login without whatever problems—just brand certain to get gear up a new password.